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New Blog

Posted on September 18, 2007
I'll be starting a new blog elsewhere. It will be more of a "personal blog/things in my head" type of blog - nothing exciting. It won't have as much to do about law as this one did. Indeed, it will probably have very little to do with law. I could just resume blogging here, but that would seem somewhat deceitful...

C&F's Future

Posted on September 12, 2007
Co-blogger Norm Pattis has grown his office substantially - adding new lawyers and new locations. In light of this, he won't have the time to continue blogging. (There really isn't anything juicy to this - no "break-up" or other attendant drama.) I've been burned out from blogging for a while now, so I'm not sure if I will continue blogging,...

How to Operate a Scam

Posted on September 11, 2007
The best scams are audacious and in the open, as this article aptly demonstrates. (Via Lat)

Doninger: One Good Fool Deserves Another

Posted on September 10, 2007
In Burlington, Conn., folks at the Lewis S. Mills High School take themselves a little too seriously. The result is a First Amendment case that could yield important new legal principles as it wends its way through the appellate courts. Some background: Students organize an annual music festival called the Battle of the Bands...

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Is Calling Someone Gay Defamatory?

Posted on September 10, 2007
Are Ross Weil and Brett Royce gay? Or just bosom buddies? Weil and Royce, after all, were college roommates who moved close to each other after college. Perhaps recognizing that they are homophobes, editors of the American University alumni newsletter "reported" that they had gotten married...

Chicago's Real Organized Crime Problem

Posted on September 10, 2007
Chicago is crooked, as everyone knows. If you want to visit a true "den of iniquity," go to a Chicago courtroom. It seems injustice trickles down to the lowest level of justice - in this case, parking tickets. According to the Chicago Tribune, the city earns approximately $210 million by writing parking tickets...

Lawyer Sanctioned for Plagiarism

Posted on September 07, 2007
An Iowa lawyer copied-and-pasted nine pages from a law review, without attribution, into his brief. The court was no happy, and thus ordered the lawyer to attend a professional responsibility class at a local law school. Imagine being a law student in class with this lawyer...

Pavarotti & James Brown

Posted on September 07, 2007
Music doesn't get much richer than this rendition of "This is a Man's World," featuring James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti.

Davy Crocket and Other People's Money

Posted on September 06, 2007
This is a fascinating excerpt (via) from a book about Davy Crocket's time in Congress. An especially interesting anecdote involved Crocket's vote to appropriate $20,000 for victims of a Georgetown fire. (There had been a massive fire in Georgetown, and Crockett supported a measure to give $20,000 in federal money to the fire's victims...

Hiding Public Records

Posted on September 03, 2007
This came up -- before inquiry was shut down -- in U.S. District Court, New Haven, Friday. Regional District 10 School Superintendent Paula Schwartz admitted denying public records to Avery Doninger the previous day. Doninger was trying to research board of education policies which were readily available and in plain view...

Blogger Beware?

Posted on September 03, 2007
A recent case involving the First Amendment rights of students raises potentially troubling questions about the extent to which opinion on the blogosphere can support discipline, not just by school administrators, but also, potentially, by bar disciplinary officials...

Travesty

Posted on September 02, 2007
EDITOR'S NOTE: This column was published Sept. 2 at The Cool Justice Report, http://cooljustice.blogspot.com NEW HAVEN -- Naked now are Mark Kravitz and the craven, tyrannical administrators of the Regional District 10 school system. Federal judge Kravitz -- a disciple of William Rehnquist and close pal of Rehnquist successor, the current chief justice of the U...

Someone Thought This Lawsuits was a Good Idea?

Posted on August 30, 2007
This video is amusing at time, in a "Is that a banana in your pants?" sort of way. If you don't think putting a banana in your pants is funny, you probably won't appreciate the humor. But you will appreciate the humor in this: A&P has sued the performers for over one-million dollars for defamation...